Meet Thomas Massie: The Republican who is openly taking on Donald Trump
He is not Liz Cheney, who converted resistance to Trump into a full-time vocation. He is not Mitt Romney, who gave a valedictory speech and left Washington shaking his head. Massie is something more awkward and therefore more interesting: a Republican who will accept Trump’s endorsement and still publicly defy him; a man who will pose for a Christmas card with his family holding assault rifles and then, in the next breath, launch a bureaucratic insurgency to force the president into a corner on one of the darkest scandals of the age.
He is not Liz Cheney, who converted resistance to Trump into a full-time vocation. He is not Mitt Romney, who gave a valedictory speech and left Washington shaking his head. Massie is something more awkward and therefore more interesting: a Republican who will accept Trump’s endorsement and still publicly defy him; a man who will pose for a Christmas card with his family holding assault rifles and then, in the next breath, launch a bureaucratic insurgency to force the president into a corner on one of the darkest scandals of the age.
